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Reach Anyone
Untraining what "witnessing" means — invite people to the Bible, not the building — and giving your one-minute testimony.
Part: Reach Anyone
Look back first. Did you study unprompted this week? Who did you tell? Confirm the habit held on its own.
Now the big untraining — handle it gently, because it runs deep:
I used to think witnessing meant getting someone to a service.
An invitation to a building is not a witness. The shift is from “Invite and Watch” to “Go and Make” — we invite people to the Bible, not the building. This isn’t an attack on the church; it’s a reweighting of where we take people first: to Jesus and His Word.
Read John 4:4–42 — the woman at the well. Read the key verses aloud, twice. Notice: she gave a testimony, not a sermon. That’s the whole model.
The testimony formula: “I found better water — come, let me show you where.” A short story plus a sincere invitation, under a minute, pointing to Jesus and His Word.
Practice:
- Give your one-minute testimony to a partner, twice. Each time, your partner checks: did it point to Jesus, or to a building? That check question is the whole lesson.
- Quietly and prayerfully, name 3–5 people you know who don’t yet follow Jesus. These names carry the rest of this part of the course.
Your “I will”: give my testimony to one person, by [date]. Concrete and dated.
Close by praying over your named people, out loud where you can. “Make me bold, make me humble.”